discord’s new terms of service DO have a mandatory arbitration clause for the United States and Canada, you have 30 days to opt out by emailing an opt out notice to arbitration-opt-out@discord.com. this has been your standard “for the love of god do not waive your right to a jury trial under any circumstances” notice
Discord forcing users to upload IDs and then having their service provider for this get hacked and leaking those IDs is incredible, they should be sued into the ground for this
By the way, because they know they can get sued from stuff like this, they’re making it so that you can’t sue them. Make sure to opt out of forced arbitration with Discord so that you can sue them:
🇺🇸deadly listeria outbreak linked to contaminated pre-cooked pasta in ready made meals; massive recalls ongoing🇺🇸
listeria can take between a few hours to more than two months (~10 weeks) to cause illness after eating contaminated food. antibiotics are available, and some doctors will prescribe them to high-risk patients with suspected listeria exposure before they experience symptoms.
you may remember back in june there was a deadly listeria outbreak linked to chicken fettuccine alfredo (FDA link). I (rune) made a post about it. at the time of that outbreak, it was not clear which specific ingredient was contaminated with listeria.
stores that sold meals contaminated with listeria include: kroger, baker’s, city market, dillons, fred meyer, fry’s, gerbes, king soopers, payless, ralphs and smith’s, giant eagle, market district, albertsons, albertsons market, amigos, andronico’s community markets, carrs-safeway, eagle, pak ‘n save, pavilions, market street, randalls, safeway, tomb thumb, united and vons, walmart, and trader joe’s. this list is not comprehensive and recalls are ongoing as more products containing the contaminated pasta get identified and recalled.
this post is going to wind up long, so I (rune) am going to try and give summaries rather than copy and pasting all the information, to make it a little bit shorter.
on june 18 2025, the US FDA, CDC, and USDA FSIS announced a listeria outbreak associated with ready-to-eat chicken fettuccine alfredo meals, with linked illnesses dating back to august 2024. the USDA FSIS is involved because these are products containing a lot of chicken. the USDA FSIS gets involved with products containing a significant amount of eggs, poultry, and/or meat.
at that time it was unclear which ingredient in the chicken fettuccine alfredo was contaminated with listeria. because the specific source of the listeria contamination could not be determined, products containing the contaminated ingredient (pre-cooked pasta) have remained on shelves for months since then.
on september 25 2025, the USDA FSIS issued an alert saying that the likely culprit was pre-cooked pasta from nate’s fine foods, and recalls for meals containing listeria-contaminated pre-cooked pasta began. their contaminated pasta is used in a LOT of different food.
as of september 25 2025: 20 illnesses, 19 hospitalizations, and 4 deaths in 15 states have currently been linked to this outbreak. as listeria can take up to 10 weeks to cause illness, followed by 3-4 weeks for any given case of foodborne illness to become associated with any given outbreak, these numbers will likely rise. not every illness from listeria is deadly, so many people recover without medical care and do not get their illnesses counted.
Symptoms of Listeriosis (Listeria Infection): Symptoms usually start within two weeks after eating food contaminated with Listeria but may start as early as the same day or as late as 10 weeks after. Mild symptoms may include a fever, muscle aches, nausea, tiredness, vomiting, and diarrhea. If the more severe form of listeriosis develops, symptoms may include headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions.
the maps on the investigation pages showing where the people who live got sick does not represent the locations where the contaminated food was sold. the contaminated pre-cooked pasta was likely sold in every single US state. not every illness was necessarily reported, diagnosed, and/or investigated in a way that could get it linked to this outbreak.
before I (rune!) get to the recalls, I want to point out something here that always comes up: if a food is advertised as ready-to-eat, that means it is supposed to be fully cooked and safe to eat without needing to heat or cook it first. and no, you should NOT be trying to cook something you know is contaminated with listeria. you seriously do not want to be fucking with listeria. while most people who get exposed to listeria do not become seriously ill, listeriosis is one of the deadliest forms of food poisoning/foodborne illness.
although the vast majority of these recalls involve food with relatively nearby best-by dates, at least some of these products have likely been contaminated since at least august 2024. you will probably not be able to get a refund on food outside of the listed recall dates. many of these recalls say that no illnesses have been linked to the individual recalls, which is technically correct, as listeria is one of the harder things to track down, can take up to 10 weeks to cause illness, followed by 3-4 weeks to get linked to any outbreak. the outbreak these recalls are linked to has killed several people already.
recall list is below a cut due to length. no images below the cut so it loads better. when sharing this outbreak outside of tumblr, I recommend using the FDA outbreak investigation link, which lists these recalls as well as links to the CDC and USDA FSIS pages.
tumblr still will not let poor old rune here write tables, and all these recalls provide different information in different styles. did my best to format this for tumblr, but remember that you can click any recall link for more information. some recall pages include visuals of the recalled products. these recalls will likely continue to expand.
SOooo I suddenly had inspiration and motivation to write something for my original story concept, so uhh here’s what I’ve got now that’s its 2am and I meant to be asleep over an hour ago….otl
[{☆EITAN AND ZAHAV☆}]
The world dropped out from under their feet. Excitement and terror mixed into exhilaration in their gut, and they whooped, the sound whipped away by the wind. Dragon wings rose and beat on either side of them, and their passage buffeted Eitan, who leaned in closer against the red and gold scaled neck they clung to. ‘Trust your dragon, and fly together’. Eitan grinned, and they could feel the Draconic pride echoed back in response. The air was bitingly cold and the sky the perfect cloudless blue, and finally Eitan was at home, hundreds of feet up in the air on Dragon-back.
COOOOO! The morning-bird cried out. Eitan’s eyes flew open. Gone was the bright-cold wind of flight, the red and gold scales, gone was that connection echoing in their mind. Replacing that was the calls of early morning birds and the dull white plaster of Eitan’s bedroom ceiling a half-dozen feet above their head, which rested not on the neck of a Dragon, but on their own hand-me-down feather pillow, instead.
They were not flying, at all. It had been a dream, Eitan realized, stomach sinking, eyes threatening to tear at the unfairness of that reality. Why must their sleeping mind create such a perfect image of what they most desired in life? Just to taunt them in their waking moments with what they cannot have?! Eitan gritted their teeth and furiously pushed the whole dream out of their head. There was no point in lingering on those dreams. There was work to do, their studies wouldn’t wait, not if they wanted a chance at - well. That dream could maybe, maybe become a reality, but only if they could make it be.
The Dragon Corps did not actively take on anyone who was not a woman or girl as a Hopeful, but if Eitan could finish their studies and have the certificate to show for it, two potential options for access to that world would become available to them. The one, a promise made long ago and most likely forgotten, which probably was not truly meant to be kept, but Eitan did not easily forget things (especially those things having to do with Dragons): upon completion of the Advanced studies in a field their father approved of, they would attend the next open-to-the-public Dragon Nest Hatching that occurred. The second - with their studies complete, Eitan, being old enough to leave home for an apprenticeship or other pursuit, could leave home and apply to a Dragon Corps Nest directly - even if only as a hired hand. Rumor had it that at times a Dragonet would choose from visitors or staff, and not only from among the selected Hopefulls.
Eitan shook their head, and thoughts of dreams and future plans from it. To accomplish that, they had to grit their teeth and just focus on their studies. Even though, Eitan thought with frustration, they’d much rather go back to sleep and dream some more, even if it would hurt more again upon waking back into their boring reality. They had to focus on the here and now, and the, at times exceedingly dull, textbooks, and hold on to their future plans more loosely lest they distract and ruin their chances.
Eitan sat up, pushed a hand through their hair, and sighed. They closed their eyes for a half a second, trying to remember, futilely now, the color of their Dream-Dragon’s scales. Despite the vividness of the dream, now that they were awake, the details fled from memory like water through a sieve.
Light streamed in through their bedroom window. Getting up and walking over to it, they dared to hope they might glimpse some Dragon pairs flying by this morning. But in this they were disappointed, the sky was clear and bright and empty of jewel-toned dragons. The morning bird made its noisy call again, and Eitan turned from the window.
They snagged their robe and a smallish text on Mathematics on the way out of the room. Even during breakfast they had to at least appear to be studious, or else their father would go off on one of his lectures again, and delay the start of this morning’s studies, and then Eitan would not get as much work done today as they would like to.
Oh, they also remembered now that they had to walk some letters to the postal office before lunchtime - perhaps it would be worth stopping in at the library on the way, in either direction, to see if they’d gotten the book on archeology in that Eitan had been waiting for - under the pretense of its value for their studies, of course, but within that book they were hopeful to find some new information on the Dragon Corps’ history. (The ruins by the pier were fascinating, but despite some inscriptions that seemed Draconic-related, they had found nothing about them in the many other texts the library already boasted. Not to mention the bits of names that were partly worn away….distinctly non-feminine, to Eitan’s modern understanding at least. Thus, additional resources for research had been requested).
Trans comic creator Hamish Steele has been targeted by libsoftiktok and a right-wing hate mob for the existence of their comic series, Dead End: Paranormal Park, an animated adaptation of their graphic novels, DeadEndia. Their grievance is specifically with the character of Barney, a transgender boy. The complaint by libsoftiktok that started this drama is specifically that the show is “telling children that they can be transgender,” which means that a trans character exists in the show at all, I guess.
So! I think it would be cool to check DeadEndia out.
Not just because I think that it would be radical
if we could actually support marginalized creators experiencing direct harassment by actually engaging with and supporting their work, but because DeadEndia is genuinely fun.
It has
a complex setting that you discover with the characters, as it’s all built around unravelling a paranormal mystery.
Sharknado is base don historical events in said setting.
hot demon boy.
a talking pug wizard in a fez.
character drama that does not center on characters who are objectively in the right or the good guy.
a genuinely rock solid art style, that the cartoon unfortunatley chose not to adapt 1:1.
a ghost with tits.
I will also say, if you’ve seen and like the animated show, it’s very much worth checking out the comic. They tell a similar story in a very different way. I’d compare it to the comic and cartoon versions of Hilda (another series worth checking out) in that Netflix tends to smooth out some of the characters’ rougher edges and adapt the narrative into a somewhat more familiar, less comic book-y format. My point being, the books are a unique experience, so if you like the show supporting queer art in the context of ongoing hatemonger boycotting is a pretty solid excuse to check the books out.
DeadEndia, both show and comic, are great y'all. The comic especially impressed me.
If you’re thinking about moving on from Spotify, I can’t recommend enough getting into modern MP3 players (more properly called digital audio players, or DAPs, since they play more filetypes than just MP3) and building your own music library.
There’s been a massive amount of innovation in the lower end of DAPs, and you can get a lot for under $100. Here are the main ones I recommend:
Snowsky Echo Mini - This is the most affordable one, at only $65 CAD (I think it’s even less in the US) and the one that I ended up buying. Designed to look like a cassette player. The main drawback is that the interface is slightly unintuitive and it doesn’t have a touch screen, but I’ve been delighted with mine.
Hiby R1 - This goes for $85 USD, and is the most widely recommended of the bunch for its good UI and wide range of utilities. Has a touchscreen and buttons.
Tempotec V1 - Similar to the Hiby R1, although the specific features are slightly different. Also has a touchscreen and buttons.
Innioasis R1 (honourable mention) - Designed to look nearly identical to an iPod Classic, including a fully functional clickwheel The sound quality on this is notably worse than the other DAPs I listed above, and the Bluetooth is widely reported to be unreliable, but I have to include it for people who desperately want an iPod again (and don’t want to shell out $300+ for a modernized Classic) and because it has an extremely active modding scene.
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You will need to buy a microSD card to upgrade the storage of most of these, although these days you can get 250GB for under $20.
I am begging non jews to realize that the reason why a lot of jews feel iffy or straight up unsafe walking past pro Palestine protests isn’t because being pro Palestine is inherently antisemitic, because it’s not.
It’s because there are antisemites in the movement and people don’t do shit to get rid of them.
I don’t have time to stand there and go “hmmmm which people in this group is going to attack me and which are fine” because I would be harassed or attacked by whoever the antisemites in attendance are, whilst I try to figure it out. I would much rather avoid the protest all together, and not be harassed.
It doesn’t matter if 99% of people in attendance aren’t antisemitic, I would much rather avoid the 1% of people who are.
And I would feel fine walking past the protest if there was an actual attempt at removing antisemites within the movement. Because at least then I know that if I am harassed, I would have people come to my defense.
And I know antisemites will be in attendance as I have had to take down or cover up multiple antisemitic posters such as the happy dolphin meme you use to express joy with the text “how it feels to kill jews”, a pro Palestine poster with the literal nazi (like actual used by nazis in nazi germany) antisemitic caricature depiction of jews labeled Israel, and a poster which had a different literal actual nazi propaganda image of the octopus on the world labeled Israel, etc.
Like no joke, people have printed out genuine nazi propaganda images the Nazis literally used, labeled it with Israel and put it up near where I live. Slapping Israel on literal nazi propaganda images that the Nazis literally created does not make it suddenly no longer antisemitic.
It’s not just that, even.
It’s also that there have been many open, blatant attacks against Jews, explicitly in the name of this movement.
And when the movement pays any attention to them, it’s only to DOUBLE DOWN.
I can tell you exactly which coffee shop I can’t go into while wearing a star of David. Because not once but at least twice, the owner has yelled at people to get out, told them they’re wearing a hate symbol, and called the cops on them.
This, for context, is in a major city where nobody at any coffee shop would EVER think of messing with me or even side-eyeing me for being openly trans.
Although I do kinda wonder what the owner of that place would do if I came in with no necklace and no binder.
The reaction from the left? People got together a petition claiming that “workers and owner were harassed with the explicit goal of provocation by two bad actors. In both instances, the agitators were wearing blue caps with a white Star of David.
"In the first instance, the cap also said, “Am Yisraeli Chai,” which translates as, “The people of lsrael live.” By June 2024, over 65,000 Palestinians had been murdered, over 18,000 of which were children. In this context, such a hat is an act of racism and violence. Wearing it is rubbing it in the face of Palestinians that so many Palestinians have been killed by Israel.”
That is the most unhinged shit I have ever heard. I’ve watched the video from the first guy. His kid needed a bathroom. The place they were in didn’t have one. It directed them to this shitty coffee house. He even ordered coffee while his kid went to the bathroom. Then the guy behind the counter started ordering him to get out and yelling at him.
I don’t know what happened with the second person. But if somebody walks into your coffee shop wearing a star of David to see if you’ll kick them out, it’s still on you if you do.
The coffee shop had a juice drink named after Yahya Sinwar. Like, preexisting Hamas juice. This one is not the Jews’ fault, my friends.
That’s not the worst story I have. The worst one is probably the woman who got the shit beat out of her, and all her stuff stolen, because of a call-out video by another woman who followed her down the street, yelling at her that she was racist, for… putting up anti-Hamas stickers.
And doxxed her. And then their Instagram followers doxxed other people who told them this was fucked up.
It’s a horrible, horrible fucking hate-filled movement. I don’t give a shit how peaceful the protests any of you have been lucky enough to go to were. I am telling you, this is the same moment that firebombed the small pro-hostage walk in Denver.
This follows directly and consistently from all the protesters who tore down hostage flyers and counter-protested hostage vigils and hostage protests.
This is a movement that regularly holds its protests outside of synagogues. This is a movement whose encampments repeatedly called for their schools to get rid of Chabad and Hillel.
This is a movement that routinely defaces Jewish schools, synagogues, Jewish community centers, with everything from “Free Palestine” to “Khaybar Khaybar.” One where people routinely join in chants, on video, that mean, “From shore to shore, Palestine shall be Arab.” One where teens sing joyfully about how they’re going to burn the Jews, and people flock to the comments to defend them.
This is a movement that focuses obsessively on Jews, to the exclusion of any focus on activists in Gaza.
Not to kill the vibe, but ICE is also detaining Black Americans in Chicago, and we should all be paying attention.
Tenants said it appears everyone in the building was detained by federal officers, including US citizens. […] Ballard said the majority of those he saw handcuffed outside were Black residents and “quite a few” were detained for two to three hours.
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